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How to use the word aggravate in a Sentence?

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Recognizing that the murder of George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma, I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and support employees who may have been traumatized and may have heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Derek Chauvin, out of care and concern, and without the comfort of time, I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings.

Superintendent Lydon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once they determine that this is now an officer-involved shooting with a fatality, most agencies are taught not to touch or disturb anything, everything is left as is for the corner who has the legal responsibility of assessing all of that in its totality. ( The coroner asks) questions like,' Did anything potentially contribute or aggravate any kind of injuries or otherwise ?'.

Bobby DiCello

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Globally, a surge in commodity prices will aggravate already existing inflationary pressures.

Carsten Brzeski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Recognizing that the murder of George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma, I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and support employees who may have been traumatized and may have heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Derek Chauvins, out of care and concern, and without the comfort of time, I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings.

Steve Lydon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The difficulties that EV start-ups have encountered, such as the auto sales decline, harsh fundraising environment and subsidies reduction, all started last year, the outbreak will aggravate these issues that already had existed.

Brian Gu

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Dust may aggravate existing heart and lung conditions and cause symptoms like eye irritation and cough, symptoms can occur for several days after dust is inhaled, so people with the chronic conditions need to be vigilant with their treatment programs.

Richard Broome

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We've seen a surge in people jailed in relation to Facebook activity, something the new cybersecurity law will only aggravate.

Nguyen Truong Son

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What could aggravate the problem even more is the complete halt of the education process in Yemen's most populous areas, which will lead boys to go to battle as child soldiers and girls to early marriages.

Ahmed Al-Qureshi

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It won't aggravate (the situation), it's complex anyway.

Dmitry Shlyakhtin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Free riders aggravate me.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They were predicting they were going to win like four states, they won some caucus somewhere. What was it, Minnesota or something? That's really, that's...frankly it doesn't even aggravate me because it's silly.

John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They sang provocative songs and made inflammatory remarks which tended to aggravate an already volatile situation.

Jacob Zuma

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system, humanity is called to recognise the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.

Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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